“Hybrid H2-CAR Process” Proposed for Biomass Conversion into Sustainable Biofuel
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Scientists from Purdue University in the United States have proposed a process for producing liquid hydrocarbon fuels from biomass. The process, featured in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online (14 March 2007), involves the co-feeding of biomass, oxygen and hydrogen in a gasifier, and subsequent conversion of the product gases into liquid hydrocarbon fuel. Professor Rakesh Agrawal says that the process can produce three times the volume of biofuels from the same quantity of biomass. Although further research is needed to realize large scale processing, the scientists estimate that the technology could “provide sustainable supply to meet the needs of the entire U.S. transportation sector..
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